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...point of fact, Painter John was coming to the U. S. to portray Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, together with his wife and four children. The portrait, if typically successful, would doubtless be bright in color, not too careful in detail; it would be possible to recognize in its style the influence of Gaugin and more especially Cezanne. The canvass would be notable for a certain quality of excitement combined with certainty of technique...
Meanwhile, in Detroit where Packards are made, President Alvan Macauley of the Packard Motor Car Co. wrote a letter to stockholders. He wanted to tell them that Packard is Packard, that it performs with distinction for distinctive individuals, that it will always do so. Wall Street, inspired by the Chrysler-Dodge merger, had been talking about more mergers and Packard had been mentioned. Here is what President Macauley wrote...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward
...asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris Cox of Massachusetts had been blocked by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, who wanted the nomination himself and would let no other Massachusetts man get ahead. The Curtis compromise resulted between 7 and 8 a. m. in a hotel room full of sleep-starved...
When the convention went into session, Connecticut's John Quillin Tilson, Massachusetts' Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Michigan's Chase Salmon Osborn and Missouri's Governor Sam A. Baker were all placed in nomination. But up got Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed...